When I Look at You

 

 

I want you to know what I see

When I look at you.

I see an explosion in my heart

I see the valleys rise above the sea

I see the mountains touch the sky

I see diamonds in the roughest parts of me.

 

 I want you to know what I feel

When I look at you.

I feel like I could touch the moon

I feel like I could climb the highest mountain

I feel something I have never felt before

I feel something I may never feel again.

 

 I want you to know what I want

When I look at you.

I want to know nothing but that truth

I want to know everything that ever was

I want to know everything that will ever be

I want to know…you.

  

I know that you are used to this

This feeling you inspire

But I am not used to having it inspired within me

And it takes time for me to understand.

Yet I will never stop trying

And I will never stop striving

To be the best for you that I can be.

 

I will never stop wanting

And I will never stop loving

You

Regardless of the ideas my mind creates

Or the challenges that you bring into my life

Because the rewards are the most beautiful

And the moments the most perfect

That I have ever known.

 

So, if you love me and you know the truth of those perfect moments

Stay.

Know them with me, and walk with me into that good light.

Show me the power of the heart that guides you

And the intelligence of the mind that speaks for you

With the strength of the character that makes me want to surrender to you.

I will give you all of me and stay true to you in turn

Knowing that if anyone deserved that part of me it was you.

 

I am sorry for the challenge of me

and I am sorry for being so unsure

In the challenge that is you.

I am sorry for tripping over my own two feet

And believing the wicked stories of others in my mind.

While forgetting who you are to me, to us, 

And trying to prove my own strength in the process.

 

I am nervous yet I am sure.

I am nervous because of the bruises on our hearts

And the distance we cannot help but share.

I am sure because of the feelings you give to me

Even on the coldest winter’s morn

And the hottest summer’s day

That make it all so perfectly perfect.

 

Put your hand here, on my chest

And heal me.

I will kiss you where your heart beats loudly

And heal those parts of you.

The story has been written my love

And when the book finally closes for the final time

It will still be you, and it will still be me

And what a story we will have told.

 

Because when I look at you

I know I don’t see what others see

I see love looking right back at me

I see a woman who loves me

Who wants me

Who needs me

Who saves the best of her for the worst of me

And who saves herself for the best of me.

 

No, they don’t get to see what looks at me

So I am the luckiest fucking man in the world

A man not used to being so lucky

Now smiles in the glow of your love

Wanting to take the best of you for the best of me

Today, tomorrow, forever.

 

 

 

I love you.